The project that you mention is called @help.venezuela and it is run by myself. The idea of this project is to provide constant upvotes to a selected group of authors from Venezuela. I mentor this group closely and I know many of the people quite personally. 

I had started the project in December 2018 believing to have found a way to provide sustainable help to these people. Instead of sending them a one time amount, I've put 750 Steem into this project and powered them up. The idea was to be able to provide consistant upvotes for them. So that each time they produce a post, they get a nice upvote from the account. My idea was to grow the account as much as possible so that I could provide upvotes for more people and make these upvotes more powerful. At the moment there are 23 people supported. Among the people who were supported from the beginning the big majority is still active on steem and they increased they SP quite considerably.

<b>Why selling votes?</b>
I'm no programmer and I don't how to set up bots to upvote people, so I'm using the service beta.steemvoter.com to give the upvotes. This is not perfect and it happens, especially when there is a black out in Venezuela, that nobody can post anything. Therefore when selling the upvotes when the account is above 95% voting power, the account generates income all the same and can grow in SP. This SP allows to give again upvotes.

<b>Why ask for delegations?</b>
My idea at the beginning was not to ask for delegations but people wanted to participate and asked me to put delegation links.  

<b>Why the project doesn't distribute the SP</b>
The SP is what allows the account to give upvotes. The delegations can disapear any day and what is left is the SP of the account. One of the bigger delegation was a price won in a contest by @theycallmedan and it was attributed for one year. Once this period is over there will be a big set back in the account and I try to compensate this by increasing the SP through curation rewards. 

<b>About me</b>
I have a nice life, I live in Switzerland and run my own company. My idea was to help people and I believe that the project is quite innovative because it uses the possibilities of Steem and helps people by rewarding their work in a sustainable manner. I've been on steem for more than a year. I've never sold any steem nor powered down any of my accounts. Steem is my hobby. I don't need any income from steem and I won't need it in the future. I've spent some time in Venezuela in my youth and I understand Spanish quite well but I'm not capable of writing it. I know the country and I want to help the people in their difficult situation.

I don't want to distribute the SP of the account because I want it to grow, to give more upvotes to more people. I have no plan to power down this account and one day if I'm doing it, I will certainly not take this money for myself. My concept is like this and I agree that it would be possible to do it better. We don't have to agree on that.

I can't accept however that you call me a scammer and that you say that I use the poor to enrich myself. I would like to ask you to try to know me better before making a judgment. I'm always open for constructive feedback and I will gladly learn from you if I can do things better.

The good thing in all this, is that this brought you to extend OCD to Venezuelan authors. I think this is a great step because there are really a lot of venezuelan authors that produce great posts that are undervalued. I suggest to check out the following authors:
@lanzjoseg, @jenina619, @juanmolina, @reinaldoverdu, @hendersonp, @fucho80, @jadams2k18, @yomismosoy, @sacra97, @hlezama, @darthgexe, @equipodelta, @por500bolos, @manuelgil64, @topfivefamily, @nachomolina, @peraza82, @tramelibre, @spirajn

I thank you for taking the time to read this comment

Best regards,
Achim

I saw something very similar happening on the blockchain. Same thing, someone asking for delegations and then instead of growing the account, regularly powering down and withdrawing Steem for themselves. No communication with supporters, no explanation, nothing. Needless to say, I want nothing to do with them. I didn't end up saying anything because I was so very disgusted that anything I would have said would not have been nice.  I can only hope that people's behaviour will be influenced in a positive way, with the new changes.  Steem has a lot of potential. I believe in that potential, that's why I am here. We can do some great things together!

Different people with different though and act. Sometime we teh to help people sincerely, but he was not the people that must be helped. 

If anyone cares to manually curate or seeks VZ STEEM bloggers for any reason, here is an incomplete list of them. I have been collecting VZ names for a few months for a project I have in mind. 

I know a few of them well, but I cannot vouch for all of them, as sometimes I only saw one post. Also remember they cannot always post regularly due to power outages etc. 

@juanmolina
@fucho80
@lanzjoseg
@jadams2k18 
@mariluna
@neferet24
@pencroff
@nachomolina
@latino.romano
@sampraise
@lacl
@teresah
@jdbs
@seifiro
@dranuvar
@isgledysduarte
@felixgarciap
@fucho80
@diuhung
@sacra97
@futven12
@ricardomello
@hlezama
@vida-blanca
@lecumberre
@adncabrera
@marlyncabrera
@sandracabrera